Honorable mention: Ronald Guzman

"The scariest school is Adams Elementary... named after that creepy Addams family on TV."

recordnet.com

Writer

Posted Oct. 31, 2013 at 12:01 AM

Posted Oct. 31, 2013 at 12:01 AM

» Social News

"The scariest school is Adams Elementary... named after that creepy Addams family on TV."

"No it isn't," she said, sitting in her chair next to his. "That school is named after John Adams, the president."

"Yeah, John Adams, that's who I meant," he said face hidden behind the newspaper. "You know he was a vampire slayer."

"You're talking about Abraham Lincoln," she said, "but he wasn't really a -"

"Lincoln High School!" proclaimed the old-timer interrupting her. "For years they've been doing a haunted house right there on the grounds of the cemetery across the street from their school."

"That's not a cemetery," she corrected him. "That's a golf course. I think your referring to the cemetery by Harding Way and California Street, near Commodore school where Stockton High used to be."

He paused and thought a moment. "Like I said, Commodore Charles Weber School by the marina. And across the water is where they'll have the perfect Halloween - on Shutter Island."

"First of all, dear," she replied, "Charles Weber was a Captain, not a Commodore. Second, the place you're talking about over by the waterfront is not Shutter Island. It's Banner Island, by the University Plaza Hotel."

"That's why it's perfect," he said. "They can arrange to remake the original Halloween movie right there on campus with one of the University's former students who starred in the film, Janet Leigh."

"What?!" she said, cackling. "The actress in that movie isn't Janet Leigh. Rather, it's her daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis. Both did attend the University of the Pacific a few miles away, not the University of Plaza Hotel - no such thing. Sometimes I think you're a little psycho, Norman"

"For the record, maybe I am, you witch," said Norman the old-timer slowly peering above the newspaper with an eerie grin.